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by Erin S. Lane
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
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by Betty Friedan
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 18, 2017
"La mística de la feminidad" es un clásico del pensamiento feminista que se publicó originalmente en Estados Unidos en 1963. Se trata sobre todo de un libro de investigación respaldado por un abundante trabajo descriptivo, y sólo como consecuencia de esto se acaba convirtiendo en un...
“New Maternalisms”
Tales of Motherwork (Dislodging the Unthinkable)
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2016
New Maternalisms”: Tales of Motherwork (Dislodging the Unthinkable) explores the perceptions of those who engage in and/or research motherwork or the labour of caregiving, and how mothers view themselves in comparison to broader normative understandings of motherwork. Here, the anthology serves...
A Strange Stirring
The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
In 1963, Betty Friedan unleashed a storm of controversy with her bestselling book, The Feminine Mystique. Hundreds of women wrote to her to say that the book had transformed, even saved, their lives. Nearly half a century later, many women still recall where they were when they first read it.
In...
Misconceptions
Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2003
In Misconceptions, bestselling author Naomi Wolf she demythologizes motherhood and reveals the dangers of common assumptions about childbirth. With uncompromising honesty she describes how hormones eroded her sense of independence, ultrasounds tested her commitment to abortion rights, and the keepers...
Sisters of the Yam
Black Women and Self-Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
In Sisters of the Yam, bell hooks reflects on the ways in which the emotional health of black women has been and continues to be impacted by sexism and racism. Desiring to create a context where black females could both work on their individual efforts for self-actualization while remaining connected...
by Valerie Solanas
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
"SCUM Manifesto" was considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts. Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, self-published this work just before her rampage against the king of Pop Art made her a household name and resulted in her confinement to a mental...
The Body Is Not an Apology
The Power of Radical Self-Love
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
“To build a world that works for everyone, we must first make the radical decision to love every facet of ourselves…‘The body is not an apology' is the mantra we should all embrace.”
—Kimberlé Crenshaw, legal scholar and founder and Executive Director, African American Policy Forum
“Taylor...
Becoming Cliterate
Why Orgasm Equality Matters--And How to Get It
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
We’ve been thinking about sex all wrong. Mainstream media, movies, and porn have taught us that sex = penis + vagina, and everything else is just secondary. Standard penetration is how men most reliably achieve orgasm. The problem is, women don’t orgasm this way. We’ve separated our most reliable...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Traditional midwifery, culture, customs, understandings, and meanings surrounding pregnancy and birth are grounded in distinct epistemologies and worldviews that have sustained Indigenous women and their families since time immemorial. Years of colonization, however, have impacted the degree to which...
Marriage and Violence
The Early Modern Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Marriage is often described as a melding of two people into one. But what—or who—must be lost, fragmented, or buried in that process? We have inherited a model of marriage so flawed, Frances E. Dolan contends, that its logical consequence is conflict.
Dolan ranges over sixteenth- and seventeenth-century...
Women Imagine Change
A Global Anthology of Women's Resistance from 600 B.C.E. to Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 1997
This global, multicultural anthology shows how women from some thirty countries, across twenty-six centuries, have found ways to resist oppression and gain power over their lives. Organized around themes of concern to contemporary readers, Women Imagine Change explores: relationships between women's sexuality and spirituality; women's interlinked s
by Bill Johnson II
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Spousal violence, or domestic violence as it is commonly referred to, is a social problem that occurs among people of all cultures, religious affiliations, sexual orientations and socioeconomic statuses. Although males and females are both reported as the perpetrators of domestic violence, males are...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
This book contributes to our collective understanding of the significance of representations of women and gender in magazines in both their print and online forms. The essays are authored by scholars, writers and cultural producers in fields such as art, film and visual studies, literature, critical...